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Nothing makes you feel more stupid than learning a new language. You lose your confidence. You want to disappear. Not be noticed. Say as little as possible.

~Hisham Matar

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I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

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From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

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Being my father's son is a kind of privilege.

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My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

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In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.

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Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

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Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.

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From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and humiliate us, and the cynical western powers, who would rather see us ruled by criminals loyal to them than have democratically elected leaders accountable to us.

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Ivan Turgenev's novella 'First Love' is one of the most perfect things ever written.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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